[Info-vax] Looking for documentation for programming with symlinks

[John Reagan]

On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 11:32:14 AM UTC-5, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-11-08 kl. 17:13, skrev John Reagan:
> > On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 9:04:57 AM UTC-5, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am looking for documentation on programming symlinks using system
> >> services.
> >>
> >> Particularly the usages of:
> >>
> >> ATR$C_SYMLINK
> >> ATR$S_SYMLINK
> >>
> >> FAB$C_SYMLINK
> >> FAB$C_SYMBOLIC_LINK
> >>
> >> naml$v_symlink_in_path
> >> naml$v_object_symlink
> >>
> >> I think I can figure most of it out by looking at the header files
> >> generated by SDL.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> -John
> >> wb8tyw at qsl.net_work
> > 
> > The ATR$ symbols are the F11XQP file attribute for a symlink.  The FAB$ ones are for creating/accessing a symlink.  For the NAML$ bits, I searched ALL the listings on a full Itanium build disk and found no uses of SYMLNK_IN_PATH at all.  For OBJECT_SYMLINK, I found one place in the CRTL that looks at it, but I found zero places that set it.
> > 
> 
> Maybe just a type in this post, but "symlink_in_path" != "symlnk_in_path".

Yes I picked up on that and searched for the one without the "i".